astronomy

  1. July 6, 2017

    U-M astronomer part of Jupiter-like planet discovery

    A U-M professor is part of a team that has discovered a giant, Jupiter-like planet that revolves around a star approximately 385 light years from the sun.

  2. October 17, 2016

    U-M helps find solar system’s second-most distant minor planet

    Astronomers at U-M and their colleagues on the Dark Energy Survey have discovered a new dwarf planet that’s more than 90 times farther from the sun than Earth.

  3. April 9, 2015

    U-M to help build next-generation dark energy probe

    University scientists and students will build components of a giant camera that will map 30 million galaxies’ worth of the universe in three dimensions.

  4. March 19, 2014

    Gravity wave discovery supports U-M physicist’s 25-year-old theory

    A U-M physicist’s theory of how so-called cosmic inflation works received support from a major astronomical announcement this week.